Control your iRobot Create with a Palm Pilot

Step 8 Prepare the build environment

If you want to work with the source, you'll need to set up the build environment.

There are 3 main tools that you'll need to make Palm Pilot programs, they are The SDK, prc-tools, and PilRC. To download the SDK you will need to make an account on the website (it's completely free). I also recommend looking around at the documentation you can find there, it has proved to be invaluable for me.

The steps to install the various tools can differ between OS's. For Linux, I would first check your package manager to see if any of the programs I've mentioned above can be installed that way. If the packages aren't available trough your package manager, you can download the programs from the sites I've linked above. Instructions for installation will come with the files. As with the vast majority of programs for linux, you should be able to compile and install the programs from there source code by downloading the program (in source code form), extracting the files you just downloaded, opening up the command line, navigating to the folder containing the program, and typing "./configure", "make" and then (as root) "make install" (without the quotes).